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(of trousers) Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short..
Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers.
I took these hemmed-up pants with me to college, and by the end of the year they were all high-water jeans because at eighteen I was still growing.
The day Pappy brought Billy Neely to live with us he didn't own anything but one pair of high-water pants: No shoes, no shirt, no toothbrush, no nothing except for one pair of high-water pants.
Use high-water when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
High-water means (of trousers) Being or resembling highwaters, long pants with a noticeable gap between the hem and the top of the wearer's foot; hence, short..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their hair almost bounced, their braces flashed in the fluorescent light, and they had my sisters' permission to make comments about my “high-water” trousers.
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